Day: 10 July 2021
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Bell heather – the most beautiful of the heathers
This day, in 1940, is officially recognised as the start of the Battle of Britain, a fight for control of the skies that would begin the German bombing campaign known as the Blitz. A bombing campaign against British cities was not unforeseen. Before the war, the Chamberlain government feared deadly raids by the German Luftwaffe,…